tunequest

B-side from the single Isobel (1995) I've never been in love with Bjork's music. To be sure, Bjork is a consummate artist and I do enjoy and have much respect for the majority of her work; I've just never been part of the "Bjork-is-untouchable" group. But if I were to become part of that club, it would be because of this song. I Go Humble never fails to send me into ...

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I spent a portion of this Saturday going through my extended archive of music, the stuff that's not in my central, everyday iTunes library. Most of those files are a bit old and for either quality or tagging reason, they've been left unincorporated. Some of these songs have been sitting untouched and unlistened to on cds and hard drives for years. So I've decided to start sorting and evaluating them ...

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In addition to their world-sized beats, The Chemical Brothers are generally known for their world class videos. I stumbled across this video to Star Guitar from the duo's 2002 release Come With Us while perusing the ol' Google Video/YouTube library this afternoon and was quickly fascinated. It was directed by noted film dude Michel Gondry, who's done some impressive work, including intriguing videos for Bjork, Beck, Radiohead and many other ...

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Early tunequest page So I was in the middle of putting together a little write up about a couple pieces of Star Trek music, when two notable events occurred here at tunequest. In progress news, I crossed the sub-1000 songs remaining threshold yesterday while listening to Joe Hisaishi's score to Spirited Away. Hisaishi has composed music for nearly all of master Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's animated masterpieces. The beauty and ...

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Webomatica posts about his best and worst James Bond songs. It's a nice list; I threw my picks into the comments, though I left out the iconic James Bond Theme. god bless John Barry for that. We disagree about Man With The Golden Gun, but to each his own. But, really, I'd like to call some attention to another Bond-related project. Shortly before composer David Arnold took over the ...

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I could probably be accused of not "getting it," but i'm really disappointed with Bjork's Medulla. that's not a pun. In the past, I've been appreciative of her ability to push boundaries and experiment while making those experiments listenable and appealing, but after multiple false starts, I just can't get into this album. Though, it doesn't lessen my respect for her as an artist, I will have to say ...

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